President Barack Obama returns to Los Angeles Sunday for a star-bedecked celebrity concert and fundraising dinner. In the wake of his Denver debate troubles, however, the long scheduled visit has acquired another, equally urgent purpose—reassuring his Hollywood supporters that he’s fighting to win the race and he’s poised for a comeback in the next televised forum with former Gov. Mitt Romney…

At the very least, several longtime Obama supporters told THR, the chief executive should expect some directorial notes on how to tailor his performance to television’s split screen. “Everyone with a connection to the president is reaching out to him,” said another veteran Dem. “At the end of the day, the best coach he has is himself.”

“The president showed up with the intent of answering questions and having a discussion, an honest discussion of where we will go as a country, and Romney showed up to deliver a performance, and he delivered a very good performance,” Axelrod said. “It was completely un-rooted in fact, it was completely un-rooted in the positions he’s taken before and he spent 90 minutes trying to undo two years of campaigning on that stage, but he did it very well.”…

Expectations have changed after the greatest audience in the history of presidential debates saw a veritable empty suit — or empty chair — on stage, without a helpful media follow-up question, or a “make no mistake about it” refrain to be had. Over 60 million now expect little at all from their president in the debate, so Obama will benefit from dismal expectations by just showing up as the incumbent and being addressed as “Mr. President.” The pressure on Romney to be even more impressive mounts. The realization that another rant by a liberal commentator could cement the reputation of Obama as an incompetent and add to the image of a hopelessly inept president will temper post-debate media anger. The moderator cannot afford to be laissez-faire in the fashion of Jim Lehrer, and will prove far more partisan. The media pressure to discount the importance of the debates themselves will increase.

The first, and the most dangerous threat to Obama’s re-election, is a critical mass of voters saying this: “Barack Obama, nice man, good father, great that we finally elected an African-American. He tried hard. But you know what? I just want to try something new, even if I don’t know it will work.”

That sentiment is deadly for Obama. As long as Romney didn’t seem like a credible alternative, Obama kept it at bay, even though the economy has stagnated. But Romney reawakened that mood by the confident and crisp way he talked about the mechanics of how jobs are created — through start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurship — and the catalytic power of markets. His presentation crackled with a freshness and a sense of possibility that was completely missing in Obama’s monotone discussion of health care, deficits and government programs. And where Obama had a chance to talk about how his own green jobs initiative has actually spurred all kinds of innovations and start-ups, he whiffed. (As some have noted, it is too bad the debate rules didn’t allow him to phone a friend.)

“Paul is going to do a great job, but also I think it’s very important that people understand that, people realize that Joe Biden is a gifted orator, is very good at rhetoric, is very relatable,” he added…

“Last week you saw the difference: an unfiltered Mitt Romney, an unfiltered Barack Obama,” he said of the debate. “You saw inspiration, heart, preparedness from Mitt Romney and you saw a president that came in unprepared and uninspiring.”

“It was one of the most inept performances by an incumbent president that I’ve ever seen,” said TIME Magazine columnist Joe Klein. He said that Obama’s performance was indicative of his deferential demeanor and his aversion towards public fights. However, Klein said that Obama opted for “unilateral disarmament” in the face of Romney’s attacks on his record.

MSNBC host S.E. Cupp said that her contacts within the Romney campaign see this debate as facilitating a reset of the campaign in three parts. First, they wanted a fight, which they got. Second, the debate ignited the attentions of marginally interested swing voters. Finally, they feel that the debate allowed disaffected Obama voters from 2008 the license to take a second look at Romney.

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The realization that another rant by a liberal commentator could cement the reputation of Obama as an incompetent and add to the image of a hopelessly inept president will temper post-debate media anger. The moderator cannot afford to be laissez-faire in the fashion of Jim Lehrer, and will prove far more partisan. The media pressure to discount the importance of the debates themselves will increase.

In other words: President Affirmative Action needs some help. (A lot of help.)

Obama kept it at bay, even though the economy has stagnated. But Romney reawakened that mood by the confident and crisp way he talked about the mechanics of how jobs are created — through start-ups, small businesses and entrepreneurship — and the catalytic power of markets.

And, if you guys had an economist on board who knew anything, you’d know that government never creates jobs that grow the economy. Only the private sector can create wealth–and raise-up ALL of the people to better standards of living.

Instead, you coddle the Krugman’s of this world, so sheltered in their hollow cocoons.

And where Obama had a chance to talk about how his own green jobs initiative has actually spurred all kinds of innovations and start-ups, he whiffed.

He “whiffed” because it’s all a lie. Every one of Odumbo’s frivolous tossings has been a Solyndra. Romney ought to ask him (Friedman, you reprobate) if he couldn’t have invested his own GD money in these ludicrous ventures.

Morning. Can’t believe I turned on Moaning Shmoe at 0500 and haven’t turned it off by now. Scarborough is suddenly amazed (after he admits he’s looked at every poll, and “the internals”) that anyone ever thought Romney would lose this. Now forget the Banjo Boy about a week ago laughing it was in the bag for Obama.

Schmoe never knows who to support until he knows who’ll win, then of course, he helped.
He’s rather OReillyish in that.

I read a really excellent piece over at pjmedia by Tom Blumer on the on the jobs report and the talk of conspiracy:

While the Establishment Survey has been showing job growth plodding along at a mostly tepid pace, adding an average of 111,000 jobs a month during the past seven months, the Household Survey’s total employment figure has seen month-to-month differences varying from the Establishment Survey by several hundred thousand in both directions. That’s hardly “little change,” Hilda.

Of course, the press couldn’t resist reporting the highly unreliable figure. It made it into the second paragraph at the Associated Press, aka the Administration’s Press, while the Establishment Survey result got mentioned in paragraph 3. The New York Times saved the Household Survey’s 873,000 employment growth figure for a later paragraph, but implausibly claimed that “its credibility was bolstered by an unexpectedly robust rise in consumer confidence.” The confidence reference was to a Gallup poll which, as the Times acknowledged, attributed its rise “almost entirely to increased optimism among Democrats.” In other words, confidence is up because many Obama supporters recognize a duty to say that they’re confident even if they’re not.

To the AP’s credit, it noticed, though not until the 24th paragraph of its report, that most of the Household Survey’s employment pickup was in an unimpressive area: “582,000 more people reported that they were working part-time last month but wanted full-time jobs … the biggest increase in so-called underemployed Americans since February 2009.” This is exactly the kind of result Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney was thinking of when he said on Friday: “This is not what a real recovery looks like.”

We must get the Obama illegal foreign contribution story out there and make sure it reaches people beyond the regular partisan news junky types. I want jokes about the Obama illegal foreign contribution scandal on the late night comedy shows and I want the subject brought up before, during and after this week’s VP debate. It needs to become common knowledge that Obama is using illegal foreign campaign contributions to pay for tv ads attempting to assassinate Mitt Romney’s character and distract people from Obama’s disastrous economic record. Barack Obama’s “favorability” rating must take another big hit.

Listen up. We will beat Obama in November, but let’s make sure the result isn’t even close. Let’s not settle for a close win… let’s go for a knockout.

I’ve always said if the numbers start looking dour enough, look for “Chicago guys” to pull the Michelle and the Girls card. If the three of them go on “The View” and the daughters cry, I will consider myself a psychic, better than Jean Dixon ever was, because I predicted that a year ago.

No, in the opening half hour Schmoe says you can guarantee in December they’ll say “whoops, this is what we meant…” Mika kept saying “the Republicans are spinning” and Schmoe said “no, Mika, they’re dancing….” He shut her down, lots of liberals probably turned it off instead of us.

joe asks salman rushdie his opinion the mohammed video that “set the middle east on fire”.

i just spit out my cheetos.

renalin on October 8, 2012 at 7:50 AM

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Did they ask the Fatwahed one for his preview of Weinstein’s Nov 4th debut of his movie ” Obama killed Islam leader Osama been Laden- and we blew his head off and fed him to the fishes” and for his reaction of how well the football spiking theme will go over in AQ land once THIS MOVIE comes out?

Obama fell apart for one reason, liberals. He has nothing to defend, and plenty to be ashamed of–ideology aside–he was merely the scolded school child who got caught doing something bad and was standing in the principal’s office getting read the riot act about the lousy manner he behaved in as he looked hopelessly on the floor.

No one, particularly the GOP, was previously bold enough to overcome the left’s racist game, the sole reason Obama was anointed their torchbearer. No one dared to take the simple risk of overcoming the fear of being called names.

The long awaited confrontation with the powerful, but plastic messiah that the base has been screaming for, finally took place and like the Wicked Witch of the East melted when a bucket of truth was finally splashed on him by Romney. And now, well the little winged flying press-monkeys are huddling, planning their next attack.

Will it matter much? Well, it’s a different and exposed messiah, now that the curtain has been pulled back and the world saw the inept pathetic phony that he is without his binky teleprompter..

In an explosive report set to send shockwaves through official Washington, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer report on a new 108-page GAI investigation into the threat of foreign and fraudulent Internet campaign donations in U.S. federal elections.

Breitbart News obtained an advance copy of the bombshell report which reveals that the Obama.com website is not owned by the president’s campaign but rather by Obama bundler Robert Roche, a U.S. citizen living in Shanghai, China. Roche is the chairman of a Chinese infomercial company, Acorn International, with ties to state-controlled banks that allow it to “gain revenue through credit card transactions with Chinese banks.”

There’s more.

The unusual Obama.com website redirects traffic directly to a donation page on the Obama campaign’s official website, my.barackobama.com, which does not require donors tob enter their credit card security code (known as the CVV code), thereby increasing the likelihood of foreign or fraudulent donations. The website is managed by a small web development firm, Wicked Global, in Maine. One of Wicked Global’s employees, Greg Dorr, lists on his LinkedIn page his additional employment with Peace Action Maine and Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights. According to the GAI report, 68 percent of all Internet traffic to Obama.com comes from foreign visitors.

Ryan trounces Slow Joe, Mitt scores another two wins. Obama will lose because Capitalism always beats Marxism on stage, and the Wizard of UHHHHHHHHH’s has been exposed. Soaring rhetoric and captivating oratory come from teleprompters – not this Stuttering Clusterfark of a weed scholar. No amount of prep will help him overcome Mitt’s middling intellect, and that’s sad. He’s been reduced to running ads about how Mitt lied at the debate. No one likes a poor loser…ever since Kindergarten in Kenya.

Henry KISSINGER. Former secretary of state. Current savant of the state of the world. Do not argue with Mr. Kissinger’s know-how. He already knows how.
Middle East horror. Democratic party dissing Jerusalem. DC’s anti-Israel mentality. Obama, busy raising re-election funds, no time for beleaguered Netanyahu. The Oval Office attitude versus the Red Line. Iran’s oath to destroy our only friend in that part of the world.
Reported to me, Henry Kissinger has stated — and I quote the statement word for word: “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”
I repeat: “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.”

Because I know our FB lobs would never click on Breitbart or Daily Caller link, I just posted this link to the foreign donations law, itself….. stated that the law is clear as a bell. If they read that first, and then they learn of the charges, who knows ??

The empty chair didn’t waste the effort to prep or to debate the issues because he knows the fix is in for his win. How else could he possibly be tied at 47%. He was at a fund raising event in LA yesterday claiming we had good news Friday, the economy is turning around, the unemployment went down from 10% to 7.8%. The crowd ate it up. Too bad they had to walk home since gas prices have necessarily skyrocketed and stations closed in CA.

and Romney showed up to deliver a performance, and he delivered a very good performance,” Axelrod said. “It was completely un-rooted in fact

Obama and his gaggle of liberal slobs have lying and obfuscating for nearly four years and now all they have is trash talk and false accusations. His parasitic constituents will continue to follow him blindly but anyone with more than two functioning synapse connections will see him for the phony his is and drop him like a hot potato.